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Sep 9 13 tweets 7 min read
On Facebook and Twitter hundreds of thousands saw a video of "Queen Elizabeth feeding vulnerable kids...😭😭😭"

Is this #QueenElizabeth "feeding humans as if they are animals"?

Let's find out! 👇🧵1/...

#OSINT🔎
#Verification 📽️
#HowToOSINT 🧐
We take a screenshot of the video and load it into the Russian search engine Yandex. #ReverseImageSearch

This brings us to a site with film recommendations. 🟥2/...
The French title of that page 👇 reads 'Annamite children collect sapèques for the pagoda of the ladies'.

Sapèque is an ancient Chinese coinage. 🪙

Annamite refers to a mountain range ⛰️ on the border of Vietnam 🇻🇳 and the neighbouring countries of Laos 🇱🇦 and Cambodia 🇰🇭. 3/
According to the site, this is a short documentary from 1900, filmed by Gabriel Veyre.

The page has a still from the film in ⬛️⬜️(left).

We compare it with the Twitter video (0:13, right).

➡️It appears to be an exact copy, but the Twitter version was coloured in. ✅4/...
On YouTube, we find the video in black and white. 📽️5/...

We also find a colour version with a Vietnamese 🇻🇳 title.

According to the caption, this version is 'a restoration of old footage with AI and machine learning'. 6/...
The original film is part of the catalogue of the French film company Lumière (1895-1905).

This is the production house of the 🇫🇷 brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière 💡 who, with their cinématographe belonged to the first generation of film makers. 7/...

catalogue-lumiere.com/enfants-annami…
This source confirms the video was shot by the 🇫🇷 film-maker Gabriel Veyre in 1899 or 1900 in Indochina, today's 🇻🇳🇱🇦🇰🇭

"The women throw sapèques at native children. These 🪙, with holes in the middle to make it easier to carry them with 🧵, were of very little value." 8/...
According to various sources, the women tossing the coins are the wife and daughter of Paul Doumer. 👇

He was French governor in Indochina from 1897 to 1902. The images are therefore part of the colonisation of Indochina by France. 9/...
CONCLUSION: We do not see Queen Elizabeth II. ❌

She was born on 21 April 1926, some 26 years after the shooting of the film. 🤦10/...
What have we learned? 👩‍🏫

1) A Reverse Image Search is a good start, but look for the best sources out there. 🔎
2) It's not because you see colour, the images can't be shot in ⬛️&⬜️
3) Criticism of a colonial past is important, but use valid arguments not nonsense ❌ 11/...
You can read my full article with all sources used here (@Knack) for FREE. 👇12/13
knack.be/factcheck/fact…
@Knack Did you learn something from this #OSINT for #FactChecking?

Follow me (@brechtcastel) and check out my channel on #YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCMBPt… 🙏

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😲"Worldwide, they are destroying cattle." 🐄🤔

What do we see? Investigate! 🧵👇 1/...

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➡️So the article seems to be about the same images. 3/...
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Where was it shot? 📍

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This part of #GEOINT is new to me. 🤫

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Fact or fiction? Investigate! 👇🧵 1/...

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That article also included a tweet with the same video. However, there is NO mention of the Vatican City. 3/..

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Footage of violence spreads like wildfire.🔥🔞

Often it’s used to blame a group of people: Ukrainian refugees in this case.

How to investigate such videos? I have 4⃣ easy steps for you. 🧵👇 1/...

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It would be 'Ukrainians' in 'Austria'. 2/...
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We also see a statue of a horse on top of a building 🟥. 3/...
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A street "covered in the blood of protesters" or "red paint"?

Investigation by @Lotte_Lambrecht and me. 🧵👇1/...

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@Lotte_Lambrecht Some context first.

Karakalpakstan is a semi-autonomous region in Uzbekistan, Central Asia.

Authorities in Uzbekistan have said that 18 people were killed during last week’s unrest after plans to strip Karakalpakstan of its autonomy. 2/...

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Blood was certainly shed in Karakalpakstans capital, Nukus.

Official figuers confirm, we've seen a lot of gruesome videos of victims. 3/... Image
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